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BHUBANESWAR: An estimated 58 per cent voters exercised their franchise till 4.30 PM for the simultaneous second and last phase of the elections to 11 Lok Sabha and 77 assembly constituencies in Odisha today. Nayagarh district recorded the highest polling of 62 per cent so far, followed by Keonjhar with 60 per cent and the lowest was over 37 per cent in Khurda district, official sources said. Among early bird voters were Assam Governor J B Patnaik and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik , Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee president Jaydev Jena and his predecessor and Congress stalwart Niranjan Patnaik.

BHUBANESWAR: In a major breakthrough, the police in Bhubaneswar on Friday reportedly arrested Subhashree Panda alias Mili, wife of the most wanted Maoist leader of Orissa, Sabyasachi Panda. However, no police officer is willing to be quoted to confirm her arrest. Mili, married to the dreaded Maoist leader since 1997, is believed to an active member of the Vamsadhara unit of the outlawed CPI (Maoist). She is understood to be in charge of fund raising for the Vamsadhara dalam led by her husband.

HINJILI (ORISSA): Congress president Sonia Gandhi continued with her 'Jansampark Yatra' in coastal Orissa for the second day Tuesday driving through several places of the southern district of Ganjam, meeting people and inquiring about their problems. Her carcade moved into this sleepy town from Berhampur, the biggest south Orissa city, amidst cheers by people who lined up on both sides of the road to greet and wave at her. She stopped near a Harijan basti where women were standing with photographs of Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi.

BHUBANESWAR: Much like top Maoists Kobad Ghandy and Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad, who went to elite institutions like the Doon school and REC Warangal, Sabyasachi Panda, Orissa's most dreaded Maoist, too comes from a privileged background: His father, Ramesh Chandra, a three-term CPM MLA, was, at the time of his death in 2004, Biju Janata Dalchief in Nayagarh. The Pandas are Brahmins and Sabyasachi a staunch Maoist. His political background gives him the idiom and access to tribals, whom he has mobilized in large numbers to rise in revolt against the establishment.

BHUBANESWAR: Total voter turn-out in the two-phased simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in Odisha was 74 per cent against 65.3 per cent polling in last general elections in 2009. While the turn-out in the second and last phase polling held yesterday was 73.4 per cent, 75 per cent of the voters had exercised their franchise in first phase elections on April 10, said Odisha's Chief Electoral Officer Mona Sharma said today. "There is no report of any major violence, no casualty and no major violation of model code of conduct for elections this time," Sharma said adding that poll boycotts have been reported from 25 polling stations.

Strap: In 261 BC Emperor Ashoka invaded Kalinga, an event that was a watershed in world history. Thereafter, Orissa has been attacked innumerable times by aspiring emperors, kings and ganglords, but has never lost its identity. In this concluding part of the ET series on Terror in the eastern states, Nageshwar Patnaik takes a look at Orissa's latest factory-fresh tormentors, the Maoists, who threaten to challenge the sovereignty of the state... Back in 1931, a young Mao Zedong stole into the heart of China's remote Jinggang mountains to orchestrate Spanish guerrilla-like operations by his famed Red Guard.

MUMBAI: Ferro Alloys and Mineral Division (FAMD), the non-steel business unit of Tata Steel, is planning to add 55,000 tonnes of ferro chrome and silico manganese production capacity each in Gopalpur and Nayagarh of Odisha by 2014. The company, which has received environmental clearance for Gopalpur project, is likely to start construction soon. "There are plans to augment the production of ferro alloys....55,000 tonnes of ferro chrome and silico manganese each are expected to be operational in Gopalpur and Nayagarh respectively by 2014," the company said in its annual report.

NEW DELHI: Two days after the Centre decided to set up a Unified Command to counter Left-wing extremism in Chattisgarh, Naxalites cocked a snook at the "isolated, state-specific" approach by carrying out meticulously planned, simultaneous attacks on half-a-dozen police facilities across Nayagarh district of neighbouring Orissa, killing 13 police personnel and a civilian and looting a truckload of arms. Around 500 armed Maoists, including women members, are said to have swooped down simultaneously on three police stations ?

BHUBANESWAR: Odisha's ruling Biju Janata Dal ( BJD ) Sunday took early lead in by-election to the Kandhamal Lok Sabha seat. BJD's Pratyusha Rajeswari had secured over 80,000 votes and was ahead of BJP's Rudra Madhav Ray and Congress' Abhimanyu Behera, officials said. Ray had about 33,000 votes in his kitty and Behera about 12,000. The by-polls were held Oct 15. It was necessitated following the death of BJD's Hemendra Chandra Singh. Rajeswari is his widow. The Kandhamal Lok Sabha constituency covers seven assembly seats spread over four districts: Kandhamal, Boudh, Nayagarh and Ganjam.

NEW DELHI: Telecom major Airtel today said it has started mobile charging service across 22 towns in Odisha impacted by cyclone Phailin and offering talk time on loan to people having less than Rs 5 in their account. The company in a statement said that it has "deployed over thousands of mobile charging points in Airtel BTS (mobile towers) locations across 22 towns in the affected districts of Ganjam, Puri, Khurda, Nayagarh, Dhenkanal, Angul and Jagatsinghpur. " It added that its mobile towers in these locations are running on alternative energy source and individuals would be able to charge their mobile phones from these locations till restoration of electricity in these impacted areas.